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- English Word Seagoing Definition Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.
- English Word Seah Definition A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.
- English Word Seak Definition Soap prepared for use in milling cloth.
- English Word Seal Definition Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
- English Word Seal Definition An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security.
- English Word Seal Definition Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal.
- English Word Seal Definition That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.
- English Word Seal Definition That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.
- English Word Seal Definition An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap.
- English Word Seal Definition To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.
- English Word Seal Definition To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.
- English Word Seal Definition To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.
- English Word Seal Definition Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.
- English Word Seal Definition To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.
- English Word Seal Definition To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.
- English Word Seal Definition Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
- English Word Seal Definition To affix one's seal, or a seal.
- English Word Seal-brown Definition Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.
- English Word Sealed Definition of Seal
- English Word Sealer Definition One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.
- English Word Sealer Definition A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.
- English Word Sealgh Definition Alt. of Selch
- English Word Sealing wax Definition A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.
- English Word Seam Definition Grease; tallow; lard.
- English Word Seam Definition The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
- English Word Seam Definition Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.
- English Word Seam Definition A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.
- English Word Seam Definition A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- English Word Seam Definition To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.
- English Word Seam Definition To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.